COPENHAGEN, April 26 (Reuters) - Denmark will deploy
soldiers of its volunteer Home Guard at its border with Germany
to ease the burden on police in coping with an influx of
migrants from the Middle East and Africa, justice minister Soren
Pind said on Tuesday.

Denmark, a member of the border-free Schengen agreement,
reinstated temporary border controls at the German border on
Jan. 4. A force of 140 Home Guard is expected to replace 165
police officers in June.

"We can see that the police is under heavy pressure,"
Pind said in a statement. "So we've taken this step now...so
that 165 police officers can be moved from the border and back
to their districts."

In 2015, the number of asylum seekers in Denmark rose to
21,000 from 14,815 in 2014.
(Reporting by Nikolaj Skydsgaard; editing by Ralph Boulton)